2. And Elijah went to shew himself to Ahab. And the famine was severe in Samaria.
3. And Ahab called Obadiah, who was the steward of his house (now Obadiah feared Jehovah greatly;
4. and it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and maintained them with bread and water);
5. and Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land, to all the fountains of water and to all the torrents, perhaps we may find grass to save the horses and the mules alive, so that we may not have to destroy some of our beasts.
6. And they divided the land between them to pass through it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.